CNN to end Piers Morgan's show
Source: Politico
CNN President Jeff Zucker has decided to bring an end to Piers Morgan's low-rated primetime show, network sources told POLITICO on Sunday. "Piers Morgan Live" could end as early as next month, though Morgan may stay with the network in another role.
Morgan, a former British tabloid editor, replaced Larry King in the 9 p.m. hour three years ago, prior to Zucker's tenure as president. His show earned consistently low ratings, registering as few as 50,000 viewers in the 25-to-54 year-old demographic earlier this week.
Morgan told The New York Times on Sunday that the show had "run its course" and that he and Zucker "have been talking for some time about different ways of using me.” Sources who spoke to POLITICO said the decision to end the show was Zucker's.
Zucker took the helm at CNN at the beginning of 2013 and has brought incremental change to the network, including revitalized news programs and a new emphasis on films and documentary shows. Primetime remains the one area where Zucker has yet to impliment substantive change.
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He's his own worst enemy.
another show that I've managed to never see!
- Ain't it great!!!
BTW- I covet your greens......
The snooze media suffers from the same malady just about everything in our society suffers from. It's that
crappification business.
Long ago I usually had headline news on in the background. I haven't watched it in over 10 years. None of it. When I look at the guide I see Robin Meade. Never watched more than 10 seconds at a time.
The rest of CNN went not long after.
Morning shows on MSNBC are pretty much the same. Chuck Todd? Jansing? Waste of bandwidth.
Then there's the PBS/NPR situation. I've given up on that also.
And don't get me started on the national snooze. 3 or 4 snippets of shallow events, then interview of some people who happened to be walking by to give how they are affected by the event ("just what will you do when your farm goes under?" , then into the entertainment tonight mode for the last 15 minutes.
And all of that sandwiched between viagra commercials. Oh, and sports is not news...unless a car flew into the stands.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
We desperately need a good forum to exchange ideas, differing ideas. And that's after we get a decent analysis of those ideas. And how those ideas/concepts are affected or affect events.
Do the Bieber (whoever the f' he is) on the entertainment show.
DU is excellent but it's discussing ideas/events with the choir.
Can I have a job at CNN ...
She's smart and interesting and has a media background (she's a magazine editor) and she'd be awesome. And cable news needs more women of color, desperately.
But even if she were terrible, the look on Piers Morgan's smug face would be worth her contract. 
Seriously though, I'd watch the shit out of her show. Appointment TV. Some smart person make that happen.
